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2008 CIFF: Sita Sings the Blues (2008)

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2008-10-10 08:07:18 by Editor in Ferdy on Films, etc.
2008 Chicago International Film Festival Sita Sings the Blues (2008) Director/Writer/Animator : Nina Paley By Marilyn Ferdinand The great stories of civilization teach lessons and convey beliefs. Many civilizations have The Good Wife and The Prodigal Son parables. India combines these two stories in the Ramayana, an epic poem from about 1000 BC....
 
Tags: sita, sita sings, blues, beautiful, beautiful sita, vampire, unconventional vampire story, story, break-up
 
 
 
 
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CIFF 2008: Snow (Snijeg, 2008)

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2008-10-08 23:13:26 by Editor in Ferdy on Films, etc.
2008 Chicago International Film Festival Snow (Snijeg, 2008) Director : Aida Begić By Marilyn Ferdinand Among the thriving film industries of Eastern Europe, Bosnia-Herzegovinas has consistently provided courageous and inventive stories that tell the rest of the world what has happened and is happening in this scarred region. The female...
 
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2008 CIFF: Beautiful (Arumdabda, 2008)

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2008-10-06 22:33:43 by Editor in Ferdy on Films, etc.
2008 Chicago International Film Festival Beautiful (Arumdabda, 2008) Director : Juhn Jaihong By Marilyn Ferdinand Back in 1996, a delightfully depraved film from South Korea called 301, 302 took on the effects of rape on a survivor and the person who tries to help her. The rape victim holds down a responsible job but succumbs more and more to...
 
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2008 CIFF: Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in, 2008)

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2008-10-05 14:01:10 by Editor in Ferdy on Films, etc.
2008 Chicago International Film Festival Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in, 2008) Director : Tomas Alfredson By Marilyn Ferdinand This is going to seem like a very peculiar way to open a review about a vampire movie, but serendipity led me to it. The hubby put on a Beach Boys CD as I sat fumbling for words, and the song Wouldnt It...
 
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2008 Chicago International Film Festival

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2008-10-03 10:07:49 by Editor in Ferdy on Films, etc.
2008 Chicago International Film Festival By Marilyn Ferdinand It's hard to believe another year has come and gone and that I'm back in training for another Chicago International Film Festival. It's a time that I relish even as I agonize over how I'm going to see everything I want to see and get it all written up each day. Things have progressed...
 
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O Brother, What a Soundtrack

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2008-10-02 11:21:34 by Editor in Ferdy on Films, etc.
O Brother, What a Soundtrack By Marilyn Ferdinand I know that everyone's talking about the new Coen Brothers's film Burn After Reading . I've kind of been ignoring the Coens for the past seven or eight years, so if that makes me a pariah of a movie buff in your eyes, go somewhere else. I've gotten pretty tired of their facile take on comic and...
 
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Paul Newman: A Talent to Savour

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2008-09-30 11:28:44 by Editor in Ferdy on Films, etc.
...movies with a monumental embarrassmentthe gruesome 1954 Biblical epic The Silver Chalice , in which only Jack Palances Simon Magus made its torpid shenanigans even briefly intriguing. Newman had broken into cinema at nearly 30 years of age in an attempt to make him the next Victor Mature or Robert Taylora pitiable fate if ever there was one....
 
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Man on Wire (2008)

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2008-09-28 12:15:49 by Editor in Ferdy on Films, etc.
Man on Wire (2008) Director : James Marsh By Marilyn Ferdinand On January 30, 1962, while The Flying Wallendas were performing their patented seven-person pyramid on a high wire in Detroit, the front man faltered under the weight of the family members he was carrying, and the pyramid collapsed. Two members of act, patriarch Karl Wallendas...
 
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Hellzapoppin (1941)

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2008-09-26 14:58:43 by Editor in Ferdy on Films, etc.
...movies until they struck gold with this off-the-hook revue some people call kitchen sink comedy for its haphazard mixing of anything and everything. The stage version of Hellzapoppin was a plotless collection of improvisation, blue humor, sketch and blackout comedy, sight gags, music, gunshots from Olsen and Johnsons ever-present starters...
 
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Our Backstreets #19: The Glamour of Publishing

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2008-09-25 15:11:06 by Editor in Ferdy on Films, etc.
Our Backstreets #19" The Glamour of Publishing 2 p.m. the day before the magazine goes to press No, no problem at all And thank you for your business you crawling piece of
 
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